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  1. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here’s Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing Reefer Man:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D44pyeEvhcQ
    Cab Calloway: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway
    (PS: In the last two seconds of that video, there’s a shot of us in the SDA LNR studios 😉

  2. Robert Sibley’s column in today’s Ottawa Citizen is a fascinating dissection of our tolerant multi-cultural society. Please discuss as the theme is basically the success or failure of our country as we know it.

  3. Robert Sibley’s column in today’s Ottawa Citizen is a fascinating dissection of our tolerant multi-cultural society. Please discuss as the theme is basically the success or failure of our country as we know it.

  6. Saskatchewan plans to elect senators
    Here’s the link
    It’s funny to see the leftie commentors twisting in the wind and trying to justify their opposition to electing senators. It’s painfully obvious that they
    just oppose anything ever put forward by conservatives.

  8. Robert Sibley’s column in today’s Ottawa Citizen is a fascinating dissection of our tolerant multi-cultural society. Please discuss as the theme is basically the success or failure of our country as we know it.

    Took some hunting, but here ’tis:
    -Intolerable–

  9. ““If the old days in China were so terrible, why the long queue at Mao’s tomb?” P.J. O’Rourke wanted to respond, “They’re making sure he’s dead”… more»”
    “The Cleveland of Asia: A Journey Through China’s Rust Belt
    P. J. O’Rourke”
    “Tom’s worst problem with the proletariat, however, involved one of his mill hands who was having an affair with a woman who worked at the chemical factory next door. They conducted their trysts in an electrical equipment closet. Amidst the throes of passion the mill hand backed into some high voltage circuitry and fried. (His paramour, with hair a bit frizzier than is usual in China, survived.) The man’s widow then brought her entire ancestral village to block the steel mill’s gates. As compensation for her husband’s death, she demanded his salary in perpetuity, a job for their retarded daughter, a new house, the payment of her husband’s gambling debts, and that her grandmother be flown to the United States to have her glaucoma treated.
    “I had to call in the Communist Party officials,” Tom said.
    “Did they ship everybody off to prison camp or something?” I asked.
    “They didn’t do anything. They said it was my problem. I settled with the widow for a couple of hundred bucks.””
    http://tinyurl.com/687dcq

  10. George Jonas “Defending the Freedom of Bad People” in todays Ottawa Citizen is an another shot into the sinking CHRC ship “Titanic”.
    How much longer can Harper and Nicholson hide below deck? No comments from B’Nai Brith or the CJC or CIC either?

  11. Some Senate Stats
    Total # of Senators: 91
    Average Number of Years in Senate 19.8 years
    Three Longest Senate Terms (all appointed by Trudeau):
    1. Charlie Watt – 35.5 years
    2. Anne Cools – 34.6 years
    3. Colin Kenney – 34.5 years
    Shortest Senate term – Yoine Goldstein – 3.7 years (appointed by Martin)
    SEATS
    Liberal – 60
    Conservatives – 22
    Independent – 4
    Progressive Conservative – 3
    Independent NDP – 1
    ? 1
    APPOINTED BY/# OF APPOINTEES/AVERAGE YEARS IN SENATE:
    ChrĂ©tien – 40 (17.5 years)
    Mulroney – 21 (23.2 years)
    Martin – 17 (14.1 years)
    Trudeau – 9 (31.2 years)
    Harper – 2
    Turner – 1
    Clark – 1
    PROVINCE
    Ontario 22
    Québec 22
    N.B. 9
    Nova Scotia 7
    Alberta 6
    Manitoba 6
    Saskatchewan 6
    Newfoundland/Labrador) 5
    B.C. 3
    PEI 3
    Nunavut 1
    NWT 1

  12. We need more articles like Robert Sibley’s in every national newspaper: Where are you Probe and Fail? (You may need fewer Jeffrey Simpsons and more Peggy Wentes on your writers’ roster…)
    To ask a cultural heritage group, in this case Judeo-Christian/European/British, to forfeit its values–which, after all, have been the host values of Canada and the reason so many immigrants have come here from tyrannical and intolerant regimes, often Muslim and/or Communist–in order to be welcoming and “tolerant” of illiberal, anti-women, anti-democratic values brought to our country by large numbersof immigrants–not all– is insanity of the first degree.
    And, yet, this is what our “mulitculural,” “tolerant,” “open,” and “diverse” apparatchiks have been demanding of Canadians ever since True-Dopey ushered in the dysfunctional, deranged, dystopian Dominion of Canada as the so-called “Just Society” (sic).
    For those of us who were warning others about the train wreck hurtling down the track in the late ’60s and early ’70s–and who were given short shrift by all of the moral equivalency progressive crowd, who had their hands firmly around Canadians’ collective neck not to mention dipping L/liberally into our collective pocket book–what has happened to Canada can only be described as a monumental disaster.
    We are now having our freedoms, fought for at a great price by our forefathers and mothers, curtailed by too many of these immigrants who have no sense, let alone respect for, the shared values and traditions which made Canada, ironically, their destination of choice when they decided to leave the tyrannical regimes of their countries of origin behind.
    Add the insinuation of tribal values and Sharia law to the wholesale gutting of OUR Western civilizational values by our chattering classes, with their devotion to Trudeaupian values of moral relativism and equivalency between all cultures and religions, and you end up with present-day Canada. That would be a country which allows–indeed, encourages–newcomers to Canada, who are stuck in their tribal enclaves with no intention of assismilating into our society based on Western values–to use our liberal institutions as battering rams against our way of life.
    It is high time for Canadians to take back their country. Given that the pen is mightier than the sword, it’s time for the members of our MSM to begin to do some heavy lifiting here. The Canuck Six are certainly doing their part, but that’s not enough, not nearly enough. We all need to stand on our hind legs and proclaim, “I’m mad as He** and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
    It’s way past time for us to worry about who we offend. The Islamofascists, who are doing their best to ruin our democracy, certainly aren’t in the least concerned about offending our sensibilities–or about curtailing our democratic rights and freedoms. Theirs seem to be the only rights that count–and that’s not right.

  13. Harper and Nicholson do have to address the issue of the HRC’s. They are aiding and abetting those who would tear down our democracy.
    The case of Macleans, Steyn and others currently hauled before the Kangaroo Court is enough to make ones skin crawl and all the proof we need about the agenda of these Commissions.
    The Trudeau Charter gives us freedom of speech, they take it away.

  15. another poll going horribly wrong…CTV
    Regulating industry 4081 votes (81 %)
    Carbon tax 964 votes (19 %)
    Total Votes: 5045

  16. “FP: Illuminate the system of political indoctrination.
    HVC: The system of political indoctrination was simple enough – the Nazis controlled the existing media.”
    “Lessons of the Holocaust-how the Nazis rose to power, what to do to stop history from repeating
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | 5-19-08 | Jamie Glazov”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017992/posts

  17. Sibley sums up what we have discussed numerous times on SDA with the same conclusions, damn soft-headed liberals.
    “Originally, multiculturalism — “soft” multiculturalism, as it’s been called — was intended to promote tolerance and open-mindedness. But this idea has been ransacked by the radical left and reworked to produce a variety of notions — postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism — that betray nihilistic self-hatred on the part of the western intelligentsia. In the words of political philosopher Kenneth Minogue, “multiculturalism arises less from love of others than hatred of our own form of life.” The result is a “hard” form of multiculturalism that is little more than an anti-western ideology.
    Hard multicultural theory, drawing on the assumptions of cultural relativism, claims that attempting to assimilate immigrants from non-western countries is wrong because it presumes western culture is superior. “The cutting edge of multiculturalism … is to be found in its insistence that the Anglo-Saxons and Celts (of the western world) must not think their language, religions, laws and customs in any way superior to those of the people who, for some mysterious reason, want to come and live here rather than stay home,” says Minogue. Assimilation is coercion.
    This attitude presents difficulties for the western societies hosting non-western immigrants. Some immigrants bring illiberal cultural values with them — hostility toward homosexuals, treating women as second-class citizens, and hatred of other cultural groups, for example. Resentment toward the host society is also common. In Minogue’s words, “One inevitable consequence of multiculturalism is a constant drip of complaint from would-be ethnic high-flyers that they are not getting a change in law, or academia, or wherever the gravy train happens to be.”
    Doesn’t that sound like Thobani and Roach? They partake of Canada’s prosperity and stability, but denounce the political and social traditions that created those conditions. Thobani says multiculturalism has little to do with sharing power with immigrants or restructuring the country economically to meet their concerns. This creates a contradiction between multiculturalism as a celebration of difference, and policies of bilingualism and biculturalism that tell newcomers “the real Canadians, the real citizens, continue to be the Canadians of British and French ancestry,” she said on the TVO program. Thobani, it seems, is really after power. Similarly, Roach has enjoyed the benefits of Canada’s constitutional monarchy for the last 50 years, but seems to think he has no obligation to tolerate the traditions of a political culture supported by most Canadians. He wants an exemption from laws that the wider society obeys in order to feel better about himself. In short, it’s all about him.”

  18. Agree that Ron Sibley article is a very good read. But notice at the very end of that article this comment:
    Even Pierre Trudeau, the key architect of multiculturalism, regretted how multiculturalism had been warped to emphasize an immigrant’s identification with his country or culture of origin rather than his assimilation of a Canadian identity. At a private luncheon with MPs in the mid-1990s, Trudeau was asked whether multiculturalism had developed the way he hoped. He replied: “No, this is not what I wanted.”
    I had read a more thorough analysis of that luncheon discussion and could never find it again on Google. I’m no fan of Trudeau, but the point is, he put something in motion and wasn’t able to correct it as it morphed. ChrĂ©tien liked what it morphed into 
 silos that he could use in mega cities to capture the vote with ethnic-Adscam-like, corruption and buying of votes.
    That the Liberals Balkanized Ontario there is no question. But did Trudeau plan it? I have my doubts. I think it was ChrĂ©tien who saw multiculturalism as an opportunity to isolate immigrants into voter silos. Ontario was at one time the economic power base of Canada. Two things have weakened Ontario’s ability to adapt to a global economy 
government unions and multiculturalism. Queens Park and Ottawa have played to this multi-culti/union base and it is still working for Liberals in Ontario. Ditto the identity politics with the Dems in the US. But we can see how that can turn into cannibalization; let’s hope it happens here.

  19. Socialism: the ideology of Citoyen Dion, Taliban Jack, Suzuki, et al:
    “They treat us like we’re not even human,”
    …-
    “Burma prepares for vote
    Yangon – “They treat us like we’re not even human,” fumed Yangon taxi driver Ko Myo, after Myanmar authorities knocked on his door to remind him to vote this coming on Saturday.
    More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck, leaving at least 133 000 people dead or missing, he’s still struggling to rebuild his life.
    Myanmar’s main city remains short on electricity and water, while the nearby Irrawaddy delta lies in ruins, with corpses still rotting in fields and desperate survivors forced to beg for food.
    Despite the devastation, however, the military regime is going ahead with a second round of voting on a new constitution on Saturday in the regions that were worst hit by the storm.”
    http://tinyurl.com/66gr98 (IOL)

  20. QHRC wants council meeting prayers to stop – Mayor says, “No”
    ================
    Quebec’s human rights commission has asked the city of Saguenay to stop praying before council meetings.
    […]
    The city’s mayor, Jean Tremblay, has been an outspoken defender of Quebec’s Roman Catholic roots, and said he has no intention of cancelling the prayer.
    According to him, the commission’s ruling is not binding, but rather a recommendation from a certain perspective.
    http://tinyurl.com/4zvvd7

  22. I agree with nomdeblog; however, i don’t think that it matters whether it was Trudeau or Chretien who essentially stopped Canada dead in its tracks from becoming a self-organized, self-defining cohesive nation in charge of its own identity and instead set it up as an empty space for immigrants to resettle their multiple old culture and identities, each incompatible with the other.
    The fact is – this is what happened and it’s a disaster, effectively splintering Canada into multiple isolate adversarial ‘blocs’ of populations. This splintering is extremely useful, as both Chretien and McGuinty have found, in setting up loyal voter blocs, who can be bribed as a group, to Always Vote Liberal.
    In return for such blind loyalty, these blocs are assured that they need never assimilate; that they can retain their old country beliefs and behaviour – even if such are only viable for a 7th century isolate lifestyle and unsuitable for a modern networked society – and this govt will support them in their continuing isolation.
    Trudeau’s Charter set up the legal infrastructure. That charter has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with individual rights and freedoms. It’s focused on group rather than individual rights. There are two key groups in that charter, defined first by language and second by cultural origina.
    The linguistic groups set up by the Charter are French and English. The fact is, Canada is not in reality and never will be a bilingual country, but the Liberal’s Charter is primarily about establishing bilingualism. That’s the main content of the charter -pages and pages on establishing bilingualism.
    Effectively this set up an oligarchy rather than a democracy for the bilingual requirement excludes the majority of the population from major and even middle of the road government service.
    Remember that our Westminster style of government appoints the majority of our government; the elected House is only about 300 members, while the appointees are over 3,000. The result of bilingualism set up an exclusive and excluding and self-perpetuating mandarin class in the Ottawa-Montreal corridor, isolated from and ignorant of the rest of the country. That’s not a democracy.
    Then, this focus on ‘group identities’ (in this case by language) moved into cultural group identities. Multiculturalism also insisted that group identities supercede and dominate individual rights. It says so in the Charter –
    Section 15 affirms equality of the individual before the law, and section 15-1 takes it right away, because ‘Subsection (1) does not preclude any law, program or activity that has as its object the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups including those that are disadvantaged because of race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability”.
    So, your individual rights are subsumed by the privileging of the ‘conditions’ of a group.
    And, Section 27: “this charter shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the preservation and enhancement of the multicultural heritage of Canadians”. What does this mean? It means that the group identities of various cultures trump individual rights.
    Ontario has been the province of Immigration. What’s the result of a policy that rejects assimilation and the development of a Canadian identity and instead, sets up these newcomers as Voter Blocs, owing their life and loyalty to the Liberals? The result, apart from maintaining the Liberal Party in power, is a population unable to work together, a population acting within adversarial and isolate communities, and feeling above all, absolutely no filiation, no loyalty, no commitment to the nation of Canada.
    As a TVO Muslim participant recently said, when asked about her nationality, replied: ‘Pakistani’. It turned out, she was born in Canada but that was utterly irrelevant to her. And such a view is the commonality rather than a deviation.
    We’ve done this to ourselves. We’ve rejected the notion of a Canadian identity (except for the smoothness of ‘tolerance for diversity’, ‘peacekeeping’ and doughnuts – all mushy values unable to stand up to scrutiny).
    Compare us with Australia, which has taken charge of itself, insisted on developing an identity as a nation, insisted that immigrants acknowledge this identity and not instead do, as in Canada, simply move their old beliefs and behaviour to ‘another space’. The Australians have taken charge: they’ve moved to an elected Senate, they’ve reduced the number of appointees, they’ve set up a competitive economic system.
    Canada? We’ve self-defined ourselves as Open Space. No Space. Bring your old beliefs and behaviour to Canada and behave just as you did ‘in the old country’. Even though it’s a different context and different people around you.
    As for Ontario and its Unions – that’s the Other Disaster. It’s also All About Power for the Liberals. They’ve aligned themselves with the Unions – and they’ve set up Ontario manufacturing and the huge bloated civil service (health care, education, transportation, security) within unions.
    Unions? They are parasites. But that’s another story. The economic reality of unions is that once a company becomes unionized its focus moves from the provision of goods and services to the benefits of its employees. To hell with the goods and services. So, the COSTS of these well-reimbursed employees goes up. And up. And up. And the goods and services costs obviously go up. And up.
    Which moves those goods and services out of competition. So, Japanese cars are preferred to the pricey Canadian cars.
    And, the quality of these goods and services goes down. And down. And down. Because the focus and money goes, not to updating machinery, or developing new technology. All the money goes to those employee benefits.
    So – the profits, rather than being reinvested in providing better cars and goods, research on developments, better service…goes to higher pensions, and benefits, and wages….
    You can see this in our health care. The focus is on the employees. Not the health care. And not training, or employing more health care services or updating equipment. It’s th employee benefits.
    That’s what Unions do. They destroy any ability of an economy to take charge of itself, update and advance.
    That’s Canada.

  23. Loved Sibley’s essay. Thanks john iev. Seems we’re not intollerant xenophobic bigots after all.

  24. Dr. Fruitfly Sucksuki was on CTV’s Question Period yesterday about Dion’s carbon tax which btw is “a good idea but hard to sell” according to MSM but of course would just be “a bad idea” if it came from Harper.
    Anywho, there’s a CTV.ca report on Suzuki bashing Layton and Harper and praising Dion: Check out the comments section below:Most all are negative again’st Dion’s tax and CTV.ca is NOT a Blogging Tory site by far!
    Happy Vic day and stay warm (Cold here in SOUTH western Ontario)…Lay on your polar bear skin in front of the C02 spewing fireplace

  25. ET says “ I don’t think that it matters whether it was Trudeau or Chretien who essentially stopped Canada dead in its tracks from becoming a self-organized, self-defining cohesive nation in charge of its own identity and instead set it up as an empty space for immigrants to resettle their multiple old culture and identities, each incompatible with the other”
    I think it matters a lot if we hope to turn this around. Because Liberals don’t reason. They run on emotional faith and Trudeau was the messiah. If we have now found a new Code or Scroll or Gospel that says before Trudeau rose to sit on the left hand side of God , that he announced multi-culti was a mistake 
 then we have Reformation of the church of Trudeau 
 don’t we?
    If we could get Liberals to accept the new Pope’s thinking on the need for both “faith and reason” we might turn Ontario around.

  26. “Mr Obama, can the Al Gore as an advisor on the environment.”
    “The polar bear situation should push Americans over the edge. The long term population has increased. In addition, the cold this winter may simply be a preview of what is coming.”
    “An Open Letter to the Presidential Candidates
    AccuWeather.com’s senior meteorologist and long range expert Joe Bastardi sent the global warming center a copy of his open letter to the 2008 presidential candidates. I like his idea in the fourth paragraph. Here it is……………
    Dear _______
    The nonsense that is the global warming debate can be likened to a Don King production, where the two main antagonists, well deserved ones at that, are still hours away from the main fight. Instead, we have under-cards that leave us simply wondering if we will ever get to the real deal.
    I use the fight game because in boxing in past days, guys went right at it. Jake La Motta and Sugar Ray Robinson once fought each other within a few weeks of a fight. There was no dancing and ducking and big mouthing, just the fight against the guys that deserved to be in the ring.
    This is exactly how this should be handled. Mr Obama, can the Al Gore as an advisor on the environment. Mr. McCain, quit succumbing to pressure because you want to look nice or moderate. Both of you, get the people that can give this debate its true merit in front of you. Hillary, if you are elected, the same thing (you got to admit, she is showing some Lady Thatcher or Golda Meir spunk these days). But stop with watching people that aren’t the main event.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5nmsl5

  27. I see your point, nomdeblog, but aren’t you missing something? There are TWO reasons for the Liberal support of the unique Canadian style of multiculturalism, aka, The Hotel Of the World.
    The first reason is assuredly ideological, which sets up multiculturalism as a value, a virtue belonging only to the Wise, the Good, the Tolerant. And, yes, if we point out that at some later time, The God of Wisdom, Trudeau, thought that heck, maybe, it isn’t such a wise idea after all…that might change things.
    But you are ignoring that the ideology was rapidly transformed from the heady wine of ideas into hard core practicality. VOTES. The Liberals, aka Libranos, instantly saw the practical value of the specious vapid emptiness of multicultural verbiage. VOTES.
    Encourage the vast numbers of immigrants to settle as Isolate and Dependent Blocs. Dependent on the government for their very existential security. Isolate from other Blocs. Adversarial with these other Blocs for funding from the govt to maintain their very existence.
    What is that existence?
    Their old beliefs and behaviour. They are discouraged from developing and assimilating into Canada. Canadian culture is defined, in itself, as a “Bloc’. Isolate and frozen in itself. Newcomers certainly can’t integrate with it; they are discouraged from doing so. Settled Canadians are openly and aggressively discouraged from integrating with the newcomers. They are to be ‘Left Alone in their Sanctity. Untouched and unchanged.
    Instead, the Liberal govt, actively and aggressively, via funding, programs, school teaching, insisted that immigrants also freeze themselves. As they were in The Old Country.
    This frozen dependency, which established large numbers of voters unable to assimilate and work to develop a shared Canadian identity, worked to the Liberal political advantage. These people are dependent on Liberals for their very existence (they think).
    So- how do you deal with, never mind the mindless Trudeaupian rhetoric, but the hard pragmatic facts of a corrupt misuse of newcomers to this land?

  28. I see a few articles in the same vein as Sibley’s in the media and the blogosphere these days: one is left with the impression that the author has just written, in 2008, a severe and serious criticism of alchemy – and now expects praise, and perhaps a Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
    Asinine doesn’t even begin to cover it.
    So I was pleasantly shocked when I read this from George Jonas:

    “All right. Going to bat for Mark Steyn’s freedom of expression is like going to bed with Gina Lollobrigida. Anybody can do it. The challenge to liberty’s libido is going to bat for a James Keegstra’s freedom of expression, or an Ernst Zundel’s. Defending the Charter rights of crude racists and Holocaust deniers is a test of liberal virility. It’s a test we failed.”
    You’re damned right we failed, George. Not the government, not the bureaucrats, not the cops, not the media, and not academia, but us, each and every Canadian citizen.
    I’m not asking for a Maoist self-criticism circle here, but anyone who would deign to wear the “Freespeecher” badge with even a shred of credibility *must* first acknowledge that they – we – have failed, repeatedly.
    The great lesson of the 20th century is the banality of evil, and the culpability of the masses of people who silently and knowingly acquiesced to the evil of a handful of miscreants.

    ” Iconic Bambi herself is in the Kafkaesque commissariat’s crosshairs. I say Bambi is at risk today because we couldn’t bring ourselves to defend vermin. We didn’t even defend stragglers like the late West Coast journalist, Doug Collins. When statism’s trespassing marauders declared an open season on Canada’s traditional liberties 30-plus years ago, we abdicated.

    Defending the freedom of freedom’s friends is dandy, but it’s no substitute for defending freedom. One isn’t defending freedom until one defends the freedom of freedom’s enemies. Waxing eloquent about speech one admires is admirable, but it doesn’t defend freedom of speech. Defending freedom of speech means defending the freedom of speech one abhors.”

    Solzhenitsyn, Live Not By Lies:

    “And he who is not sufficiently courageous even to defend his soul- don’t let him be proud of his “progressive” views, and don’t let him boast that he is an academician or a people’s artist, a merited figure, or a general–let him say to himself: I am in the herd, and a coward. It’s all the same to me as long as I’m fed and warm.
    …
    And if we get cold feet, even taking this step, then we are worthless and hopeless, and the scorn of Pushkin should be directed to us:

    “Why should cattle have the gifts of freedom?

    “Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.”

  29. G&M has a poll, do you want an elected senate.
    I voted yes-results 100% yes, with one vote. Voted about 40 minutes ago.
    Just checked the results and guess what, no votes cast.
    Go vote and lets see the results, after they get enough NO votes to register.

  30. Dave: “Originally, multiculturalism — “soft” multiculturalism, as it’s been called — was intended to promote tolerance and open-mindedness…”
    There’s a parallel and a link to the HRC’s history of radical subversiveness. Both have imposed policy within our borders without consulting Canadians (i.e. outside democratic controls).

  31. re: the G&M poll
    I too voted yes at approx. 6:00am EDT today.
    I just checked and there are no votes registered.
    I tried to vote again but it told me I had already voted.
    Guess they didn’t like the results.

  32. that’s interesting, Mary T. I also voted ‘Yes’ to an elected Senate. And it also showed up as one vote cast for 100%…and now..shows up as zero, with ‘no votes cast’. Hmm. Could be a glitch.

  33. ET “But you are ignoring that the ideology was rapidly transformed from the heady wine of ideas into hard core practicality. VOTES”
    Actually I totally agree with you on that, as I said above “ChrĂ©tien liked what it morphed into 
 silos that he could use in mega cities to capture the votes with ethnic-Adscam-like, corruption and buying of VOTES.”
    ET “So- how do you deal with, never mind the mindless Trudeaupian rhetoric, but the hard pragmatic facts of a corrupt misuse of newcomers to this land?”
    We deal with it by removing it from the Trudeaupian “religion”. Because Trudeau says it was a mistake.
    We also need to tie it to John Tory’s Faith Based Schools and tie it to Dion’s Carbon Tax. These are bad policies, not costed out, and not thought through, just emotionalism.
    When these items get launched they take on religious like qualities. I’m saying fight fire with fire. Fight religions with religion. If blogs can demonstrate to the 1/3 Ontario population, that worships Trudeau, that the messiah in fact said he was not happy with what his multi-culti idea morphed into; then we have something to campaign on in the battle field. Ditto Dion’s flip flops on CO2. These are relgious issues and we can always find another chapter negating each other .. so insert reason into faith. Today’s Liberals can’t handle reason, we’ll win.

  34. more on multi-culti-huggy
    ” Writing for the Glob, Lysianne Gagnon makes several arguments pointing to the sham of the official Canadian multicultural policy. Her arguments are incidental to her point against the Bloc’s phony desire to see Quebec exempted from the official federal policy. Her piece is evidence of how sound arguments can be used to marshal fallacious conclusions.
    Never mind the official ideology of “multiculturalism,” a gimmick set up by Pierre Trudeau to facilitate the adoption of the Official Languages Act. At the time, some ethnic groups, especially in the West, were furious at the privilege bestowed on French Canadians, whom they considered to be just another ethnic group. Very well, said Mr. Trudeau – we’ll promise that these groups will also be able to retain their cultures of origin.
    rtr http://tinyurl.com/5h9hbd

  36. Britain’s left-wing Labour government will vote on limiting late term abortions tomorrow. They’ll also be voting on eliminating the need for fathers, animal-human hybrids and growing twins so that their organs can be harvested.
    It’s the most radical law being debated anywhere in the world and yet it’s not getting 1/1000th of the attention that the California gay marriage thing.
    You can read about it on the bbc website.

  37. Is this the same driver? Yesterday there was a story of a trucker, waiting to cross the border, to get a load of Oreo cookies and bring them back. Due to delays etc he would max out his driving time and have to rest. Today there is a story of a truck filled with Oreo cookies, that crashed and overturned, with cookie pkgs all over the road. Seems the driver went to sleep and hit a meridian.

  39. nomdeblog – I’m very sceptical about your ‘fire with fire’ tactic. That assumes that Trudeau’s later musings on the problems of multiculturalism is a fire, and even enough of a fire, to displace and dethrone the Religious Mantra of Multiculturalism that currently exists.
    As pointed out, the Charter is primarily about the establishment of bilingualism in Canada – a policy with disastrous undemocratic consequences because it removed over 80% of the population from viable government roles and set up an isolate elite mandarin civil service governance in Ottawa.
    Multiculturalism doesn’t exist just as some musings from Trudeau. It’s in the Charter. His pet project, a project which has divided Canada into isolate Blocs – isolate by language, by origin, by frozen identities.
    And certainly, no costs of inserting either bilingualism or multiculturalism into our system were ever done. Or will be done. The costs of bilingualism are massive – and what return do we get for it? The ‘return’ is the disintegration of a civic and democratic governance. Multiculturalism? The ‘return’ is the empowerment of the Libranos in government, both elected and appointed.
    Attached to that Charter’s multiculturalism and bilingualism, we have an enormous, enormous set of statutes and rulings to promote both. With regard to multiculturalism – we have the Human Rights Act. An act which has nothing to do with human rights but a great deal to do with enforcing isolate and adversarial identity blocs and preventing the collaborative development of Canada.
    How are you going to deal with this legal infrastructure that rapidly, like some noxious weed, took hold and spread, to strangle our nation?

  41. “Falun Gong band gets Tulip Fest spot
    A marching band that was initially ousted from the Tulip Festival played yesterday to one of the largest crowds event organizers have seen this year.”
    http://tinyurl.com/5awf64 (ottawasun)

  42. “The Ray-ban theory of history
    Juan Carlos Zarate, described as a senior US counterterrorism official by the Telegraph is quoted as claiming “that the demise of al-Qa’eda is in sight because its failure to adapt its violent ideology and tactics has provoked growing dissent across the Islamic world.” This claim is not as outrageous — even to those who believe ideologies are invincible — as it might at first seem. While Islam has maintained its general militancy and aggressiveness over the centuries, the lifespan of individual fanatical movements is distinctly shorter. It is possible that the world has not seen the last of radical Islam; but it may be true that it has seen the last of Bin Laden’s crew.
    History suggests that Islamic militancy comes in waves. Mohammed bin Abdullah Hassan, better known as the Mad Mullah of Somaliland, had a heyday between the years 1900 and 1920. The Mahdi, Mohammed Ahmad of Khartoum fame, lasted from the early 1880s to the turn of the century, if the career of his successor the Khalifa is added to it. The British were chronically in pursuit of one mad mullah or another throughout their vast colonial possessions. The young Winston Churchill facing the forces of yet another “mad mullah” in the Swat Valley some years after he had accompanied Kitchener to Omdurman, remarked:
    “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen; all know how to die; but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome”.
    The wave passes. But the ocean remains.”
    http://tinyurl.com/54wcpq (belmont)

  43. Quote: It’s way past time for us to worry about who we offend. The Islamofascists, who are doing their best to ruin our democracy, certainly aren’t in the least concerned about offending our sensibilities–or about curtailing our democratic rights and freedoms. Theirs seem to be the only rights that count–and that’s not right.
    Yep the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. It’s time we sent a message to the Islamofacists who want to destroy our freedoms. SHUT UP AND INTERGRATE, or leave.
    Leftwing think thanks admit that Muliticuluralism, much to their chagrin, is a failure. It destroys the hosts’ culture and replaces it with marginilized minority culture and beleifs that aren’t compatable with democracy and a free and open society. The direct result of multiculturalism is ghettos, racial enclaves, violent race based gangs, immigrant upon immigrant violence. Immigrants bringing Century old hatred and feuds onto our soil and we were told to turn a blind eye because to speak of the above we’d be racism vermin.
    Canadians were not allowed to speak as we watched this hell unleashed on our soil lest we offend. We aren’t nor were we racist, we were visionaries that saw the future and the destruction the leftards ideology wrought on our culture.

  45. ET , I get your point about multi-culti-huggy being in the Liberal’s bible.. the Charter.
    But Conservatives are the party of the BNA Act and on that basis we are de-centralizing and the Provinces will soon have to stand on their own accountability. The Ottawa/Queens Park obfuscation by ponzi games will end, as will the under the table funding of ethnic leaders.
    Meanwhile assimilation is an attitude. If we can overcome cultural relativism and stop the idiotic blaming of our selves for colonialism in Rhodesia and get back to our own history of tolerance of one another’s cultures; then we’ll assimilate versus silo.
    Your points on the cost of bilingualism and HRC’s support my point .. if one can be slightly optimistic.
    Decentralization will keep our tax funds, as even McGuinty agrees, in Ontario versus sending them to Ottawa for equalization so that the Have-not Provinces have more nurses per capita than we have. De-centralization means more control in unilingual Queens Park and the shrinking of 400,000 civil servants in Ottawa ..thus incrementally starving the need for bilingual Federal bureaucracies.
    ON HRCs , less then 1% of the population even knew about section 13.1 a few months ago. Now I’ll wager you that it will end soon after the 2009 election.

  46. ET: You’re in very fine form today. Great posts.
    As far as Trudeau regretting what multiculturalism had become, I simply don’t buy this. Trudeau was a communist or as I put it in another venue once: as communistic as he could be in the context of the Canada of his time. In that same venue, a few years ago, a poster, evidently with a straight face, argued that Trudeau tried and tried and valiantly tried some more to insert property rights into the Charter but his heroic efforts were foiled.
    Remember Trudeau’s “north-south” dialogue [read: monologue: we speaking in honeyed tones while giving the shop away, they rubbing their eyes in astonished disbelief at our naivity].
    Trudeau HATED the Anglos (and business, free markets) and no small part of the project was to try to destroy Anglo dominance in Canada.
    As Steyn put it, multiculturalism is a one way street. [see the UK kaffir- baiting video in an earlier thread for proof of this]

  47. ET and nomdeblog. By extension our Charter of Rights and Constitution are not being interpreted correctly, if Trudeau didn’t believe in later application. After all, he is the brains behind the document. To effect the change we need, two things are likely required. Second, incremental rather than institutional/constitutional change, reforming from the bottom up. Harper is shy on this one because he knows there’s very few votes for him anyway, and challenging multiculturalism will meet heavy resistance from all sides, especially the soft left lib desperately holding onto their bastion of influence. It will get nasty quickly.
    Anyway, those voting blocs have been reduced to large urban areas, and while it allowed McGuinty to sustain his incompetent regime, there is not enough there for federal Grit power.
    Harper will likely abandon those blocs in next election and focus his efforts on the 905 belt in Ont and strengthening support elsewhere, even in Vancouver, where multiculturalism takes a different bent – owning Japanese cars and Italian flooring. Shrieking fear just doesn’t play as well out west.
    Maybe we should try harder on this one, but pragmatism and appealing to immigrants who come to Canada to be capitalists will eventually win out. It’s still ultimately about power and Harper knows he can’t make the change many believe is needed without a broader base of institutional and parliamentary support.
    Some object strenuously, but appealing to ideological purity is dangerous; just ask Stephane Dion.

  48. My apologies. The first needed condition for change is, of course, a Tory majority government.

  49. “Soldiers sickened by Taliban tactics
    By Murray Brewster, THE CANADIAN PRESS
    ARGHANDAB DISTRICT, Afghanistan – Not much comes as a shock to soldiers, but even for men who may have seen it all, the suicide bombing involving a young Afghan boy has taken the already bitter war in this country to a whole new level of savagery.
    It was the utter cruelty of the attack Friday that wounded two Canadians and took life of an Afghan soldier on patrol in Zhari district that has made if even the most weather-beaten, battle-hardended faces blanche.
    Afghan police initially placed his age at between 10 and 12 years, but over the weekend one official in the troubled district said the child may have been 13-years-old.
    What investigators were trying to determine as they sifted through the evidence over the weekend was if the boy’s bomb vest was remotely activated by a militant somewhere nearby, timed to go off – or whether the child flipped the switch himself.” http://tinyurl.com/6p4fou
    …-
    Liberals: “Dion backs Dallaire on Khadr case”
    […]
    “Liberal Leader StĂ©phane Dion backed Dallaire yesterday, reiterating his call that the government intervene in Khadr’s case.
    “I think that Mr. Jason Kenney, as usual, provoked a colleague of mine who has not a lot of experience in the heat of the parliamentary debate. But on the substance of the issue, Gen. Dallaire is right. Mr. Khadr should be back in Canada. All the other countries have done that,” Dion told reporters.
    Khadr, now 21, was 15 when he was shot and captured by U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan in 2002.”
    http://tinyurl.com/6fd76p (broom)

  50. Shamrock “but pragmatism and appealing to immigrants who come to Canada to be capitalists will eventually win out.”
    I totally agree. I’m a big fan of Wajid Khan, the Liberal MP who crossed the floor. I’ve seen at the podium speaking directly to a Muslim audience “you are Conservative and don’t know it” .
    He goes on to talk about free enterprise, hard work and family values. His audience nodding.
    I say, keep the immigrants deport the multi-culti-huggys.

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